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inherit English

Meaning inherit meaning

What does inherit mean?
Definitions in simple English

inherit Verb

— Getting the characteristics of its parents. He inherited the double eyelids of his mother. — Getting the fortune of someone. She inherited her father's billion dollar fortune.

inherit

— verb obtain from someone after their death I inherited a castle from my French grandparents — verb receive by genetic transmission I inherited my good eyesight from my mother — verb receive from a predecessor The new chairman inherited many problems from the previous chair

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inherit English » English

succeed succeed to come into inheritance take over receive carry on inherited get fall heir to descend carry on from acquire with take the place of take over by transfer share selfishness retain receive a legacy possess obtain lay know by instinct heredity hereditament heirs handed down follow exact dun dowry dispossess continue connect come to come into money collect be natural to be heir to be born with accept accede

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Person Life Die

Inherit
Social behavior Relationships Kinship

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Conjugation inherit conjugation

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inherit · verb

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Simple sentences

In the case of language, however, it is only the ability to talk and understand that we inherit genetically; the particular language or languages that we speak are passed on to us not by genetic transmission but by cultural transmission.
A son who could not learn to paddle his own canoe does not deserve to inherit his father's fortune.
Remember that we will inherit the results of your decisions.
His relatives took it for granted that they would inherit the bulk of his wealth.
Tom agreed to marry that man's daughter with the promise that he'd inherit the man's business.
Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Tom certainly didn't expect to inherit the house from his uncle.
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Tom hopes to inherit a lot of money when his mother dies.
We inherit our genes from our parents.

Movie subtitles

You have murdered your husband to inherit his fortune and spend it with your lover.
For Helga, you will inherit the lot known as the Field of the Devil.
Then, did you know that I would inherit a lot worth a million?
Yes, my son, when the strong have devoured each other the Christian ethic may at last be fulfilled and the meek shall inherit the earth.
Young man, did you inherit the streak of insanity that runs in this family?
The dopes are going to inherit the earth anyway.
Did you discover a gold mine in the New World. or inherit a fortune?
After all, Mama, it isn't his fault that he is to inherit the estate someday.
No doubt she and Mr. Collins would like to go over the place thoroughly and see what they're going to inherit.
Yes, the monster's victim shall inherit his body.
But you'll inherit the farm.
I won't inherit any of my father's money until I'm at least fifty-five.
There are many important documents to gather so that you can inherit all this.
Henrik will inherit me.
And even if your coming back meant that I'd inherit the world I couldn't forget the look in Tarzan's eyes when he thought he would lose you.
Obviously the girls won't inherit anything now.
Pity there's no son to inherit the title.
Louis. It was therefore theoretically possible that via Mama I might inherit the dukedom.
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Did you inherit?
Inherit?
Will his son inherit?
He told me I'd inherit everything!
Inherit her again.
So that I could inherit all her money.
Did you inherit that tendency?
There are 273 people in line, who have the rights to inherit the throne, so you don't have to worry.
First in line to inherit, Princess Lee Jae Sin.
What a pity men inherit their ancestors ignorance instead of their wisdom.
Then may you also inherit Maule's curse.
A country that your little boy and girl, that all our children will be proud to inherit and live in.
No babbling idiot of a governor will make laws that have to do with my manor. with the manor that my son. that my son will inherit.
This money you're to inherit belonged to your mother, didn't it?
We inherit from a friend who leaves his fortune equally to us in order to show that his feeling was purely platonic.
Since your husband's body was never found you can't inherit his money until you prove that he's dead.
Did you inherit some money?
Correct me if I go wrong, Mark. So that I could inherit all her money.
Yes, she was starting to write a book, something around the theory. let me see, that a child can inherit criminal tendencies in the blood.

News and current affairs

We are being driven slowly but ineluctably to the realization that the people whom we are fighting will, to a significant extent, inherit the shattered countries that we leave behind.
Similarly the children of rich parents may inherit wealth, but this is social, not genetic inheritance.
For example, ensuring that women have equal rights to inherit, sign a contract, register a business, or open a bank account would cost little, but could have far-reaching economic benefits.
It will inherit the earth not by dispossessing the rich of their property, but by providing motives and incentives for behavior that are unconnected with the further accumulation of wealth.
What sort of China will Jiang's successors inherit?
If Obama fails to fight these fires successfully, they will consume his political capital, but if all he does is fight them, he will inherit Bush's priorities.
It would inherit its share of UK public-sector debt and future liabilities without the benefit of the substantial subsidy that it currently receives from the British Treasury.
If the child does inherit it, he or she will, at around 40, begin to suffer uncontrollable movements, personality changes, and a slow deterioration of cognitive capacities.
We don't inherit rights: we make them.
This is part of the changing panorama that new world leaders will inherit in the Middle East - a region in which the United States has been deeply involved.
The next American president will also inherit a country with a markedly changed geopolitical perspective.
But it is not just the new US leader who will inherit a changed world.
But Bhutto would inherit Musharraf's domestic enemies.
It also reflects the near-certainty that the next president will inherit a world in considerable turmoil.
The expenses and pressure of the dowry system, and the fact that, in most joint families, only sons inherit property and wealth, contribute to this favoritism.
Owing to the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, any future British government will inherit a military that is overstretched, undermanned, and working with worn-out equipment.
When states collapse, their constituent parts sometimes inherit armed forces that are competent enough to maintain minimal levels of governance.
Unlike Egypt, however, whoever takes power in Libya will not necessarily inherit poor economic conditions that could threaten their legitimacy and undermine their popularity.
But that trust dissipates; succeeding generations of leaders do not inherit it completely, and must earn it.
What type of world will the children you see in such prodigious numbers in Gaza inherit? Will collective punishment make them moderate, law-abiding helots?
This is a triply repellant idea, for it implies that knowledge is bad, disobeying God's will is the greatest sin of all, and children inherit the sins of their ancestors, and may justly be punished for them.
Obama will inherit a world in which power in all of its forms - military, economic, diplomatic, and cultural - is more widely distributed than ever before.

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